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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
You really can stop right there.
If the 240 had the correct battery..........less than three years old...........with clean cable clamps, you don't have a problem.
You wish to completely reengineer the vehicle and add significant weight to cure the simple problem of an old battery.
Doesn't make any sense.
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Sorry about that, Brian. I'm tired and not typing clearly.
It is my JUMPER cables, not my battery cables, that are good cables with good clamps.
The battery was 6 years old and overdue to fail. As of today, the car has freshly cleaned clamps and a new Group 49H8 battery. We'll see what happens in the morning; car doesn't have a block heater and it's about 13 degrees out there at the moment. Expecting single digits by morning.
The reason I was surprised by the failure is that I had advance load-test the six year old battery two months ago on a relatively warm day. It returned a result on their little machine of 1,034 cranking amps available. I should have known that a battery that tested better after 6 years than it was rated for brand-new was probably an anomaly, but I decided to be hopeful and optimistic and hope I'd just finally gotten hold of a really good sturdy battery.